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A study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association indicates that depression after heart surgery is a very common effect; up to half of patients who undergo treatment for blocked arteries may develop it. 
 
Part of the reason may be psychological, a reaction to illness; part may be damage to blood vessels in the brain as a result of the disease or the surgery. 
 
Conversely, depression raises the risk of developing heart problems as well. 
 
Depression is treatable, especially in these instances, and doctors are urged to screen for it in these patients. 
 

Heart troubles often lead to depression

Seattle Post Intelligencer - 6/27/2006 4:03 PM

DALLAS -- As many as half of all people hospitalized for surgery or other procedures to treat blocked heart arteries develop depression, according to a report in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association.
 
Doctors believe the depression is brought on by the mental stress of facing serious illness, or perhaps by microscopic damage done to the brain by the surgery itself. For some patients, the depression is a new thing; for others, it may have been present beforehand
 
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